Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
Archaeology is often overlooked as a teaching platform for sustainability. The information that archaeology produces focuses on the consumption, use, and care of resources. Archaeologists attempt to understand their data and imagine the social systems that produced those results. Most archaeologists, however, rarely consider how long term trend about ecosystem health can be patterned against [...]
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
What is the relationship between loving a place deeply and nurturing and sustaining it? This is a question that Indigenous and non-Indigenous American writers have long revolved, alive to the ways our history of settler colonialism complicates the question. In her talk, Michelle Neely will draw on the work of Henry David Thoreau, Willa Cather, [...]
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
234 Mirror Lake Road, North Woodstock, NH
Staff from the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation will offer a tour on May 21, which will touch upon their long-term data collection, acid rain, watersheds, and forest ecosystem science. The visit is typically 2–3 hours and involves a 1.3 mile walking tour through part of the 7,800 acre experimental forest. Tour stops include atmospheric monitoring [...]
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
We welcome you to attend the opening reception for "Of Baskets & Borers: The Past, Present, and Future of Indigenous Basketry in the White Mountains" on Friday, May 31, 4:00-6:00pm. There will be opening remarks from our Director, Meghan Doherty, and light refreshments will be provided.
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
Who do you call when you have a collections question? Who do go to if your storage space floods? Are there people in your community or other communities in the North Country and Lakes Region that are dealing with the same questions and concerns you have? The Know Your Neighbor Summit will bring together cultural heritage [...]
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
White ash (Fraxinus americana) will inevitably be almost non-existent in New Hampshire because of the invasive emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). We are studying the role white ash plays in the ecosystem before it is functionally extinct to understand how the loss of this species will affect the forest. By comparing the soils, understory vegetation, [...]
